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Short and long tip tears


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Can someone describe or post a file with the timing for these. Adam introduced me to them the other week and the change it brings to my somewhat monotonous patterns is pretty stunning, but I am still not sure if I have the timing right. There is precious few vids online that I can find, only the qbert one which doesn't help that much..

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It's alternating chirps and tips (short baby scratches where you just catch the very tip of the sample).

 

Check out 2:28 here: -

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1j2JCPumA

 

Most of the time, DJs time them so they kinda sound like tears, hence the name.

 

I used to do them all the time when I cut regularly, but the only example I have to hand is from the start of this mix I'm making where I do 2 at the very beginning: -

 

LSTT.mp3

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Actually, here's a better example: -

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I05PSYwp3cU

 

At the start before the first verse.

 

The scratch evolved from the sort of scratching that Jazzy Jeff is doing in this track between 1:22 and 1:32: -

 

 

Not that he was the first to do that by any means, but it's a nice clean example. Long short tip tears are basically what he's doing there double-timed with shorter record movements.

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Tip tearings just the record hand movement. You cud just baby them or chirp em , i think swing flares kinda bring out this record movement naturally.

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